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Dr. Atkins 195lbs

http://atkins.com/Archive/2004/2/10-133186.html

February 2004: The Truth About Dr. Atkins’ Weight
By Stuart Trager, M.D.
At the time of his injury at the age of 72, after years of following the Atkins Nutritional ApproachTM, Dr. Atkins’ recorded height was 6 feet and his recorded weight was 195 pounds.

In today's Wall Street Journal a grossly distorted story on the health of Dr. Robert C. Atkins reported that he weighed 258 pounds at the time of his death, making him obese. In fact, the day after his fall, Dr. Atkins' weight was recorded as195 pounds, 63 pounds less than reported at his death! Based on the body mass index (BMI), a desirable range for people over the age of 65, is 24 to 29. At a height of 6 feet, Dr. Atkins’ BMI was 26.4, putting him squarely in the normal range for his age.

The Journal article was based on incomplete and inaccurate personal medical information that was released in violation of federal law. Furthermore, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), which, despite its name is a group of animal rights activists, illegally delivered these documents to the newspaper.


Dr. Atkins' weight was consistently and frequently documented in the years and months prior to his fall; as he was suffering from cardiomyopathy, his health was monitored closely. Despite this, he regularly played tennis, his favorite sport. His weight at his death was a result of water retention. During his coma, as he deteriorated and his major organs failed, fluid retention and bloating dramatically distorted his body.

Any implication that Dr. Atkins was obese prior to his accident shows a blatant disregard, or even worse, a twisting of medical facts surrounding this case to suit an agenda. One would also expect knowledgeable physicians to have a better understanding of the physiology of severe heart failure and the degree of fluid retention that occurred during this hospitalization for severe brain trauma. None of us would expect the physicians at PCRM to reveal any of this in light of their past and current motivation—but surely as medical professionals they understood that this weight gain was not due to obesity.

 

[SaladShooter]

I response to the previous post.



On February 10, 2004, The Wall Street Journal published excerpts from the New York City Medical Examiner's report on Atkins' death. The report indicated that Atkins weighed 258 pounds at his death, making the diet-guru clinically obese, and that he had a history of heart disease, congestive heart failure, and hypertension. Was this caused by his diet? Did the Atkins' diet kill Atkins?

Atkins' widow, Veronica Atkins, told the Journal she was outraged that the report had been made public, but even she conceded in a statement issued the same day the story came out that her husband "did have some progression of his coronary artery disease in the last three years of his life, including some new blockage of a secondary artery."

At his death, the family apparently objected to and stopped any autopsy, so city medical examiners conducted only "an external exam" and a review of Atkins' hospital records, according to the Journal . But in these records there clearly is plenty of information about Atkins' heart disease and hypertension, information that the public never knew of until this week and much of which is still unknown.

In her statement, Veronica Atkins asserts that her husband's personal medical history "is private and of no concern or relevance to the media or general public." She also calls the individuals who made public her husband's records "unethical." But couldn't the same be said of the Atkins' empire? Given the widespread popularity of the Atkins diet, Americans have a right to know all the facts. The Atkins' books and food sales continue to rise, exceeding $100 million dollars last year, and are expected to be at least double that amount this year. Given the nationwide popularity of the Atkins diet, Americans have a right to know all the facts about Dr. Atkins and the Atkins diet. They are entitled to know if this diet harmed the arteries of its most ardent proponent who followed the diet long-term rather than just for a short 6 or 12 months like the people in the recent Atkins' diet studies. They are entitled to know because their own arteries are at stake. The whole debate, in short, is not just about diets. It's about the health and well-being of the nation.

www.pritikin.com

www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1074967/posts

Nobody will ever know details about his death. The sales of his products is worth too much.

 

["TheBigPicture"]

Have you done a pregnancy test yet?? That might explain the hunger!!

Seriously.....I would have to agree with the majority of the posts on here and as a 50lb loser who has kept it off for over a year now, here is what I tell people who ask me how I did it.

1. COMMITMENT- to yourself and nobody else, until you want to do it for you it will never work.

2. DIET- Atkins, South Beach, Slim Fast, whatever,etc.......Find one that fits in with YOUR lifestyle, and start changing your current diet, cause it ain't working....when you think you can't find a way or are too busy, revert back to rule #1

3. EXERCISE- gotta do it......find something fun, if you hate running don't pick that because it worked for your buddy, you'll just find and excuse to skip it later on.

4. MODERATION- THIS IS THE GATEKEEPER ....go too extememe on either end of 2 or 3 and you will face burnout and revert back to your old ways, I guarantee it!!

Losing weight isn't a get rich quick scheme, it's a lifestyle change...so that doesn't mean you can't pile up a little cash up front to get you started, but if you don't spread it around you'll spend it and be just as broke as you were when you started!

Hope this helps